Chapter 30

On the other side, in Beiyi City, more than a thousand kilometers away, the annual e-sports league is about to begin.

The organizer's live broadcast has also begun. The number of online viewers exceeds one million, barrages of comments scroll continuously, and there are too many comments below to read.

The contestants are getting ready in their seats at the main venue, waiting for the competition to begin.

Shen Yuqing and his studio staff were also sitting in the corner to rest. This time the competition was held in Beiyi, and he only brought a few employees with him.

He originally only wanted to bring his assistant, but his agent Li Juan also came along and brought her niece along.

Li Juan was the one who brought Shen Yuqing into the industry in the beginning. She was considered an old member of the studio and also half of Shen Yuqing's agent.

Therefore, although Shen Yuqing didn't like her very much, he didn't fire her.

But he is not a person who will just accept things passively. In the past two years, Li Juan's position has been gradually vacated by him. This is why Li Juan is so anxious to get her niece into the studio.

“Yuqing, this is my niece, Li Yunting.” She looked at Shen Yuqing somewhat flatteringly, her tone intimate.

Li Yunting was wearing a tight top and was looking at Shen Yuqing with a look of delight, her eyes filled with subtle seduction.

But Shen Yuqing just glanced at Li Yunting without any reaction.

Seeing that Shen Yuqing didn’t speak, Li Juan pulled her niece in his direction and pushed her: “Tingting, call someone quickly.”

Li Yunting curled her lips, lifted a strand of hair beside her ear charmingly, and opened her red lips slightly: "Brother Yuqing, just call me Tingting."

As she said this, she stretched out her right hand with manicure towards him, wanting to shake hands with him.

On the side, Zhang Xiaotiao and Yang Chunchun, who had been sitting obediently in the guest chairs, saw this awkward scene and looked at each other.

"No, Sister Li really wants to match her niece with Brother Shen?" Yang Chunchun felt that Sister Li was a little crazy.

It would be fine if others didn't know, but Sister Li knew about Xia Ruirui's existence and even pushed her niece to Shen Yuqing.

Although Tingting doesn't look like a good person either.

But who would let his niece be a mistress?

Zhang Xiaotiao glanced at Sister Li's niece and whispered to Yang Chunchun, "Who do you think is prettier, Tingting or Sister Ruirui?"

Yang Chunchun was incredulous after hearing this: "Of course Sister Ruirui is pretty, is there any need to ask?"

"That's it, Brother Chen won't be interested in her." The young assistant didn't take her seriously.

Yang Chunchun glanced at the assistant, still feeling a little worried.

Zhang Xiaotiao is a man, he doesn't understand that no matter how good Sister Ruirui is, she can't resist the initiative of this green tea girl Tingting.

What if Brother Chen loses control of his mind and has a drunken night? This is how misunderstandings between the hero and heroine in novels arise.

The two of them were still whispering here, but Tingting was giving Chen Yuqing a taste of her charm. Who knew that Chen Yuqing didn't even look at her, but just glanced at Li Juan coldly.

The staff on the stage came down and signaled Shen Yuqing that he could go up, and the competition would begin soon.

Shen Yuqing nodded and went up with the number plate.

After he left, Li Yunting saw that Shen Yuqing was cold and looked at Li Juan for help, and Li Juan patted her hand comfortingly.

"All men are the same. After a while, he will be hooked by you." She looked at her niece and said with expectation, "Tingting, you have to work hard."

Li Yunting nodded, indicating that she understood.

Zhang Xiaotiao and Yang Chunchun, who witnessed the entire incident, responded: "..."

Li Juan turned around and saw the two people sitting in the seats, and her attitude changed from flattery to arrogance in the face of Shen Yuqing.

"You two, this is my niece, Tingting, who will be your boss lady in the future."

“…”

"I understand, Sister Li." Zhang Xiaotiao agreed.

Yang Chunchun, standing by, looked reluctant, but only nodded after being poked by Zhang Xiaotiao.

Li Juan was satisfied with this and sat aside with her niece.

The real person was right next to him, so Yang Chunchun couldn't complain and sent a message to Zhang Xiaotiao on his phone.

Yang Chunchun: [You are just so hypocritical.]

Zhang Xiaotiao: [The more times she bullies you, the more hypocritical you become. Sneer.jpg]

Yang Chunchun couldn't help laughing out loud. Sister Li, who was standing next to her, saw her laughing and looked at her inexplicably.

She then calmed down a bit. She glanced at Zhang Xiaotiao, who was looking at her nonchalantly, and gave him a thumbs-up in the dark.

'Brother, you are good at acting. '

'It's just so-so.'

Zhang Xiaotiao blinked at her, then stopped looking at her and lowered his head to play with his phone.

There is still an hour until Brother Shen's game ends, and he can do whatever he wants during this hour.

Zhang Xiaotiao had just been watching a short video when a piece of news suddenly popped up.

I thought it was an advertisement, but when I clicked on it, I found out it was real-time news and the headline of the hot search list.

Yang Chunchun, who was standing by, saw him looking down at his phone and came over: "What are you looking at?"

The two of them looked at the current affairs news on the screen together——

According to our station's report, a 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck Yunjin City at 15:45 this afternoon, and cities around Yunjin also felt strong tremors.

Less than an hour after the earthquake, rescue efforts were already underway in the Yunjin area.

After reading it, both of them were stunned for a moment, then looked up at each other.

Yunjin City, isn’t that where Sister Ruirui went for travel?

Yesterday, she even posted a circle of friends with a location, saying where she was going and what she was going to do...

From the eye contact, both of them confirmed that this was not their illusion.

Zhang Xiaotiao quickly clicked on the entry for earthquake, wanting to see where in Yunjin City the earthquake had occurred.

Yang Chunchun kept looking through Xia Ruirui's Moments, trying to see the location of the Moments she posted yesterday.

The two people's flustered behavior soon attracted the attention of Li Juan and Li Yunting.

Sister Li frowned: "What happened?"

Both of them were busy with their own work and did not respond to her. Seeing that no one paid attention to her, Li Juan grabbed Yang Chunchun's arm and asked again.

Yang Chunchun shook off her hand without even looking at her, ran outside with his phone, and played a video for Xia Ruirui.

"Sister Ruirui, please answer the phone quickly!"

She called several times and sent Xia Ruirui more than a dozen messages, but no one replied.

She trotted back inside and looked at Zhang Xiaotiao, who had taken out his computer to look up information. "How's it going? Do you know where the earthquake happened in Yunjin?"

Zhang Xiaotiao looked up at her. "The epicenter covered the entire Yunjin area...and the surrounding cities are still experiencing aftershocks."

The first reaction of both people was - it's over.

Zhang Xiaotiao rushed onto the stage without a second thought, not caring whether the entire event was live or not.

He knew that this matter must be very important to Brother Shen, and if Sister Ruirui… Shen Yuqing would definitely know about it.

Li Juan, who was standing by, heard the conversation between the two and probably guessed that the person Shen Yuqing liked had gone to Yunjin and happened to encounter the earthquake.

Looking at her niece beside her, she felt a little secretly happy.

If the person Shen Yuqing likes is gone, then Tingting can take over, and he can rest easy in his later years.

With a sudden thought, she stopped Zhang Xiaotiao and stood in front of him to prevent him from going.

"What a big competition this is. If Shen Yuqing gets distracted because of you, you might not be able to keep your job."

Li Juan looked selfless, as if she was thinking entirely about Shen Yuqing.

Thinking of the importance of this match, Zhang Xiaotiao hesitated. If Brother Chen really missed out on the trophy...

He was still hesitating when Yang Chunchun pushed him: "At worst, we can both quit our jobs and go work for Sister Ruirui."

Zhang Xiaotiao glanced at her, and without hesitation, ran towards the control staff.

Seeing this, Li Juan did not stop him, but glared at Yang Chunchun.

Yang Chunchun played dumb, pretending he saw nothing, and sat back in his seat.

After listening to this, Li Yunting turned to Li Juan and asked, "Aunt, who is the sister Ruirui they are talking about?"

Li Juan looked at her: “The person Shen Yuqing liked before.”

"Will Chen Yuqing still like me?" Li Yunting was not too surprised. After all, any man nowadays has two or three exes.

What's more, Shen Yuqing is so attractive.

Li Juan looked at her unconvincedly: "You have to seduce him. How do you ask me to know?"

Yang Chunchun, who was forced to attend the meeting, rolled his eyes and turned away, not wanting to look at these two top-notch people.

On the other side, the young assistant was explaining to the staff who stopped him that he had an urgent matter.

The staff said that this was a live broadcast and could not be paused, so he was asked to wait until the game was over.

Zhang Xiaotiao was extremely anxious. "Please be flexible. Our brother Chen has a very important person in Yunjin. Yunjin just had a 6.7 magnitude earthquake."

Hearing this, the staff member who stopped him was stunned for a moment and looked at his colleague. His colleague nodded at him, indicating that an earthquake had really occurred in Yunjin just now.

"But..." The staff member was still hesitating, but Zhang Xiaotiao had already rushed past him.

Outside the screen, the audience watching the live broadcast saw the unexpected situation and looked at Zhang Xiaotiao who rushed onto the stage.

Shen Yuqing was concentrating on playing the game. When he heard the noise, he glanced over and found that it was Zhang Xiaotiao. Seeing the panicked look on the assistant's face, he suddenly had a bad feeling.

He glanced at the staff, took off his noise-canceling headphones, walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Brother Chen, there was an earthquake in Yunjin, and I can't reach Sister Ruirui on WeChat..."

Shen Yuqing could no longer hear what was said afterwards. His head buzzed and he suddenly had tinnitus.

He held onto the back of his chair, trying to calm himself down: "Did Xia Ruirui call?"

"We don't have Sister Ruirui's phone number..."

Before the assistant finished speaking, Shen Yuqing took out his mobile phone and called Xia Ruirui on the spot.

But the phone was always busy. Shen Yuqing's hands were shaking so much that he hung up and called again, called again and hung up again.

Even after making dozens of calls and Xia Ruirui didn't answer, Shen Yuqing was completely panicked.

He made a stop gesture to the staff, picked up his coat and was about to leave.

The staff member looked a little embarrassed: "Teacher Shen, if you leave now, it will be considered as a forfeit."

Shen Yuqing nodded, walked around him and was about to go out.

When the entertainment reporters outside the venue saw that Shen Yuqing was about to give up, they quickly raised their cameras and took pictures of him.

They originally wanted to wait for the game to end and take some footage before going back, but unexpectedly they saw Shen Yuqing, who had attracted much attention in the e-sports circle, withdraw from the competition.

Several media outlets flashed their cameras, including the reporter who filmed Shen Yuqing’s scandal last time.

Smelling a hint of something extraordinary, he blocked Shen Yuqing's way with his camera.

"Excuse me, why did Mr. Shen withdraw from the competition?"

Shen Yuqing also recognized him, ignored him, stretched out his hand and pulled him aside, and walked straight forward.

When other media saw him about to leave, they came over to block his way.

Zhang Xiaotiao squeezed out a path for him in front, but because he was afraid of offending the reporters, he didn't dare to use too much force. Several reporters were fearless and pushed their microphones towards Shen Yuqing one by one.

"Mr. Shen, please answer the question."

"Excuse me, is there any connection between Mr. Shen's withdrawal from the competition and the Beiyi City earthquake?"

"Excuse me……"

Shen Yuqing's already volatile heart became extremely irritable at this moment. He snatched the camera from the reporter who was blocking the front and threw it to the ground with force.

“Stop filming!”

"My camera..." The reporter whose camera was thrown at him ran towards his camera, rolling and crawling.

Seeing that Shen Yuqing was angry, the other reporters were a little annoyed and all made way for him.

"Take the invoice for your camera to my studio to ask for compensation." Shen Yuqing said to the reporter and left.

After leaving the venue, he went straight to the parking lot.

"Brother Shen."

After giving the business card of the studio to the reporter who dropped his camera, the assistant caught up with him.

"Brother Chen, the trains and flights to Yunjin have stopped running. Do you want to drive there yourself?"

Shen Yuqing ignored him, took out the car key, pressed the unlock button, and sat in the driver's seat without saying a word.

Just as he was about to close the door, Zhang Xiaotiao stopped him.

As if he had already made a difficult decision, Zhang Xiaotiao mustered up his courage and said, "Brother Chen, I went to college in Yunjin when I was a student. I'm familiar with the roads there. I'll drive you there."

Shen Yuqing looked at him, then glanced at his hands, which had been shaking since he heard the bad news, and looked at the little assistant with some hesitation: "There may be aftershocks, and you will be in danger."

"I'm not afraid." Zhang Xiaotiao laughed.

Shen Yuqing glanced at him wordlessly, hesitated for only a moment, then stood up and sat in the passenger seat.

As he closed the door, he glanced at Zhang Xiaotiao and said softly, "Thank you."

“No need to thank Brother Shen, I also want to do my part to help with the Yunjin earthquake.”

"good."

The young assistant was driving and was stopped just as he left the basement.

The person who stopped the car was Mr. Li from the organizer. The little assistant didn’t look forward anymore and looked at Shen Yuqing in the passenger seat.

Shen Yuqing frowned, lowered the passenger window, and looked at Mr. Li, the organizer who stopped their car, thinking he was going to say something about continuing the competition.

"Mr. Li, I have already..."

Before he could finish, he was interrupted by the other party: "My wife is also in Yunjin."

Shen Yuqing was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that Xia Ruirui seemed to have gone to Yunjin with Wang Kelly.

Thinking of this, he didn't say anything.

Seeing that he had no intention of stopping him, Mr. Li opened the door and got into the back seat.

Shen Yuqing looked at Zhang Xiaotiao and said, "Let's go."

Zhang Xiaotiao started the engine again and glanced at Mr. Li, who looked worried, in the rearview mirror while driving. He was a little surprised.

He knew that Mr. Li was the bad woman's husband, but he didn't expect that he seemed to care about the bad woman so much.